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Russia banned fruit and vegetable imports from Poland yesterday and warned
that the ban could be extended to the entire EU in a move seen as
retaliation for western sanctions over Ukraine.

The freeze on Poland’s €2 billion (£1.6 billion) fruit and vegetable trade was
seen by Warsaw as a direct reprisal against a country that led calls for the
EU’s punitive response to the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight
MH17.

Moscow warned that the western sanctions would drive up energy prices and
damage the economy in the EU as much as in